[pchelpers] Re: DIRMS


PC Cowboy, 
 
    I had an NTFS drive in a similar condition. Nothing worked for me except 
Powermax the Diagnostic from the Maxtor Download Web page
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm

I had Powermax do a low level format on the drive and after that I was able to 
format it and transfer data to it with no problem.. 

   Cy


-- PcCowboy <saddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Durham wrote:

>That was quite a drama. You tried one of the suggestions I had for you, 
>and it thankfully worked. Now if possible, disconnect the drive with the 
>saved data and boot in a way that can see the partitions on the SATA 
>drive, or remove/re-partition them. If a boot floppy will, great. If 
>not, will XP see it for partitioning purposes? Does your BIOS see it?
>
>  
>
Bios sees the drive.
XP windows explorer sees the drive, but won't open the drive.
XP Computer Management do not see the drive.

With bad drive plugged in it takes 20 min to get to the desktop.
Unplugged the computer boots normally.

Still tying to find my Motherboard cd so that I can make a SATA driver 
boot disk so that
XP recovery Console can see a SATA drive.

Pc

aint- it only works if applied.


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